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The religious adulation of Clinton.

Mr. Blumenthal was obsessed with the enemy, and together with his new sidekick, the Gollum-like David Brock, he was determined to drive them crazy and fight them "to the death." Everything else became invisible. The myopia is both funny in its way, but also deeply contemptuous of civil discourse.

Mr. Blumenthal’s main gripe is that the Republicans never accepted the legitimacy of a Clinton Presidency. But Mr. Blumenthal never accepts the legitimacy of American conservatism. "The only authentic American conservatism," Sid pronounces at one point, "is that of John C. Calhoun, who laid the political arguments for the Confederacy. Other arguments masquerading as ‘conservatism’ are forms of self- interest expressed on behalf of concentrated private power." Well, you can’t say he isn’t direct in expressing his contempt. The worst Sid can say of anyone is that they’re conservative—by which he means not merely wrong, but evil, the inheritors of slavery and bigotry. So when he writes that "even before the inauguration, the patterns of light and darkness had rolled in," you can see exactly how he sees the world. In a strict sense, I think, Sidney is a Democratic bigot. He doesn’t simply differ with the political opposition; he loathes them and believes resisting them is a moral obligation. In this, he was pitted against Republican bigots in the Clinton era, and between them, the secular religious wars almost brought the country to a constitutional crisis.

Sure, trash the economy. Run Hillary as the stealth candidate. Lanny Davis proposes huge "disclosure" regulations to the SEC this week that will be as disasterous as the Kyoto treaty would be. Anti-war protests continue beyond the war. The ChiComs continue to be let loose to fund Democrat traitors. Democrat filibusters continue ad nauseum for purely political reasons.

Think all this and more is is any mere coincidence? The religion of Clinton is alive.